Hello, it's Miranda with a new mini episode of Podforce One to start off your week.

This feature is a little more topical and more to do with my day-to-day job as a columnist for the New York Post

when I zoom in on a topic that I think will interest you. Today's subject is about the many mysteries of one of the most puzzling crimes of our time.

Who planted the January 6 pipe bombs in Washington?

After almost five years, the FBI announced last week that it had a suspect.

But they cracked the case without any new information. Just fresh eyes, they told us. So how on earth did Joe Biden's FBI miss what was right in

front of them? The arrest of the alleged January 6th pipe bomber just lumps mystery on top of mystery.

What we know from court documents and media reports since his arrest Thursday is that

suspect Brian Cole Jr. is a black, 30-year-old loner who lives in his mom's basement in the middle-class

suburb of Woodbridge, Virginia, a 20-minute drive from Washington, D.C. According to his family,

Cole is a borderline autistic and incapable of such a crime. In interviews, Cole's grandmother,

Loretta Cole, has said he is, quote, very naive. He's almost autistic-like because he doesn't understand a lot of stuff. He's

slow. He may be 30, but he's got the mind of a 16-year-old, end quote. Yet, we are told that

this criminal mastermind evaded the FBI for almost five years.

FBI director Cash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi both say it was just, quote,

incompetence or, quote, negligence that the FBI's big manhunt under Chris Ray didn't crack the case.

There was no new evidence, just fresh eyes.

But surely there's more to it than that. Patel hinted on Friday at a reason that the FBI under

Ray during the Biden administration may not have wanted to solve the case. He said, quote,

intentional negligence.

This, after all, was the FBI that managed to round up and charge 1,500 Trump supporters

who set foot anywhere vaguely near the Capitol on January 6, 2021, tracking them down through

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